A range of challenges from economic instability, supply chain disruption, inflation and a tight labour market have underscored the growing need for advanced manufacturing.

The industry has increasingly looked to technology to meet these challenges, a situation that is unlikely to change as global problems grow exponentially.

To face these challenges, the vision of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains is to shape manufacturing and supply systems that unlock productivity, innovation and growth, while protecting the planet and contributing to economic and social prosperity. The centre’s mission is to help public- and private- sector leaders from the manufacturing and supply chain ecosystem anticipate global trends, leverage pioneering technologies, unlock innovative business models and incubate new partnerships to drive economic, societal and environmental impact.

The centre’s work includes four priorities:

During the reporting period, the centre launched the US Center for Advanced Manufacturing, the Forum’s first thematic centre. It engages with the national manufacturing ecosystem to accelerate the transition towards advanced manufacturing through a series of local, national and international projects and activities. The centre also plays a role in shaping the global agenda on the future of production, while contributing to strengthening the competitiveness of the US manufacturing sector.

The centre also launched the International Centre for Industrial Transformation, a non-profit organization that provides global benchmarking tools to assess the technology, sustainability and resiliency maturity of industrial operations and helps inform investment and policy decisions.

The centre helped develop the Estainium Association, a non-profit that offers a neutral platform to unlock carbon emissions data-sharing throughout value chains to help accelerate the decarbonization of manufacturing industries.

The Global Lighthouse Network, which spotlights the most successful stories of digital transformation in manufacturing, expanded to 132 Lighthouses.

The centre’s People as the Future of Manufacturing initiative, which shapes a new vision of the role of people in industries through hands-on collaboration with factories worldwide, created a framework to drive industrial workforce transformation programmes and developed the Augmented Learning Tool to assess, share and evaluate upskilling and reskilling programmes.

The Industry Net Zero Accelerator disseminated the Consumer Sustainability Industry Readiness Index globally, offering a benchmarking tool that can assess the sustainability readiness of industrial operations.

The Centre for Cybersecurity used its flagship report in 2023 to highlight leaders’ concerns regarding the likelihood of a hugely disruptive cyberattack before 2025. With technological advancement – particularly following the push towards digitization accelerated by the pandemic – cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated. In a fast-evolving digital ecosystem, decision-makers need to anticipate and address tomorrow’s cybersecurity challenges.

Reflecting this, the centre’s vision is to support every individual and organization to securely benefit from ongoing digital and technological progress. Its mission is twofold: to provide an independent and impartial platform to reinforce the importance of cybersecurity as a strategic imperative, and to drive global public-private action to address systemic cybersecurity challenges.

The centre bridges the gap between cybersecurity experts and decision-makers at the highest levels to reinforce the importance of cybersecurity as a key strategic priority.

The centre’s work includes three priorities:

The centre engages with a range of people and interests, reflecting its multistakeholder approach. Business collaborators include the senior leadership of Accenture, Aramco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Salesforce, among others. It works with the directors and secretary-generals of the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the US Department of Homeland Security, Europol, the FBI, the Cyber Security Authority of Ghana and INTERPOL.

The centre also works with universities and senior academics, including the University of California, Berkeley; IMD Business School, Switzerland; New York University Abu Dhabi; and the University of Oxford. Maintaining ties with civil society, the centre works with the presidents of the Cyber Threat Alliance (US), the Global Cyber Alliance (US) and the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation (the Netherlands).

Highlights in this reporting period comprised the centre’s in-person meeting, the Annual Meeting on Cybersecurity.

Held in November 2022 under the theme, “Leadership for a Resilient Future”, the meeting convened 135 cybersecurity leaders at Forum headquarters in Geneva. Sessions covered cybercrime, cyberwarfare and quantum security, among other topics.

More than 170 senior leaders contributed insights to the centre’s flagship publication, the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023. The report was produced to enhance collaboration between security leaders and executive decision-makers, and provided recommendations designed to enhance societal resilience against cyberattacks. Notably, it emphasized the impact of prevailing geopolitical instability on the global response to cyberthreats and the need for increased public- private collaboration.

As part of the work of the Quantum Economy Network, the centre developed a framework and guidance to help address security challenges while realizing the transformative potential of quantum technologies, outlined in a white paper entitled “Transitioning to a Quantum-Secure Economy”.

The Systems of Cyber Resilience: Electricity initiative secured direct funding from its 11 founding members for a dedicated Forum-hosted secretariat. Its aim is to help the industry pursue collaborative action to strengthen operational cyber resilience.

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023, the Cybercrime Atlas initiative was launched to provide a platform for cybercrime investigators, national and international law enforcement agencies and global businesses to share knowledge, generate policy recommendations and identify opportunities for coordinated action against cyberthreats.

The energy sector is in a period of profound transformation, shifting from a model in which fossil fuels dominate to one that produces zero carbon emissions. During the reporting period and against a backdrop of high energy prices and growing environmental threats, the Centre for Energy and Materials continued to help accelerate the overhaul of national energy systems and key industrial sectors.

The centre’s aim is to act as a platform for local and global stakeholders and diverse industries that develops coalitions and delivers the insights required to enable a sustainable, secure and just energy future. Its mission is to accelerate the transition to an energy system fit for 2050 – one that is secure, sustainable and just, and enables positive economic and social development.

The centre’s work includes four priorities premised on ensuring that the energy transition is sustainable, secure, resilient, just and affordable:

The centre has four complementary flagship programmes, each comprising initiatives implemented in collaboration with more than 180 Forum Partners active in the energy and materials fields, as well as with a range of collaborators. It works with governments, international organizations, academia and civil society.

Underscoring the amount of attention and investment the energy transition is attracting, the centre worked on multiple activities over the period. In particular, and in an especially volatile year for energy markets, the centre’s Energy and Industry Transition Intelligence programme provided insights into how to navigate the energy transition through its flagship report, Fostering Effective Energy Transition 2023 Edition, and a white paper on energy security, “Securing the Energy Transition”. The Energy and Industry Transition Intelligence programme guides supported transition efforts by providing data and facts and by identifying gaps and enablers for transitioning energy and industrial systems.

The centre launched the Coal to Renewables Toolkit, offering a practical tool referencing best practices from coal power producers and regions that have repurposed their coal infrastructure into clean energy.

The Accelerating Clean Hydrogen Initiative presented two Enabling Measures Roadmaps for Green Hydrogen covering Europe and Japan, while the Clean Power and Delivery and Electrification Accelerators were launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023.

Finally, the Net-Zero Industry Tracker was created. It marks the world’s first standardized cross-sectoral framework to monitor progress on hard-to-abate sectors’ decarbonization.

The Centre for Financial and Monetary Systems oversees a fast- moving sector, one in which the adoption of digital technology is accelerating rapidly, but also one that is in turmoil. The period witnessed the continued fallout from COVID-19, instability in the financial sector, high inflation and the effects of the Russia– Ukraine war.

Amid this, the centre’s vision is to design a financial system that effectively allocates capital and investment in support of the planet, people and communities. The centre provides an independent and impartial platform to design a more sustainable, resilient, trusted and accessible financial system that reinforces long-term value creation and economic growth.

The centre’s work includes four priorities:

The Financing the Transition to a Net-Zero Future initiative, which mobilizes capital and enables demand signals in support of critical decarbonization technologies required to transition the global economy to net-zero emissions, engaged with more than 80 financial institutions and heavy industry and mobility corporates to develop financing blueprints and policy recommendations for breakthrough decarbonization technologies to enable the net-zero transition of hard-to-abate sectors.

The Green Building Principles: The Action Plan for Net-Zero Carbon Buildings offered a roadmap for all organizations to deliver net-zero carbon buildings, helping to accelerate action from a range of industries with significant real-estate footprints. At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023, eight CEOs of organizations representing the full real-estate value chain adopted the principles. In adopting them, these CEOs committed to reducing real-estate-related emissions by 50% by 2030 and reaching net-zero carbon no later than 2050, impacting thousands of buildings worldwide.

The centre’s Future of Capital Markets initiative worked to broaden access to capital markets for all. A report and a global retail investor survey that covered nine markets and received more than 9,000 responses analysed global trends in capital market access, education and trust. They identified public- and private-sector calls to action to increase financial advice, improve financial literacy and expand options for private-market access for individual investors.

The Technology, Innovation and Systemic Risk initiative engaged in the identification of emerging technology-driven risks to the financial system and in the development of effective mitigation approaches to ensure system integrity. More than 100 senior leaders from financial services firms and the public sector were involved in the initiative during the period, leading to targeted risk mitigation opportunities for financial services executives, policy-makers and regulators, and to the report, Pushing Through Undercurrents.

The Digital Currency Governance Consortium convened more than 80 public- and private-sector organizations to ensure the collaborative and responsible expansion and adoption of digital assets and held a series of Central Bank Digital Currency Regional Roundtable discussions.

The digitization of manufacturing, healthcare and agriculture continues, ushering in significant changes in the ways products are made, patients are treated and food is grown. Reflecting these and other industry transformations, the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s global network continued to expand over the reporting period to 19 centres, each with its own areas of focus. Never has this been more important given the challenges the world faces today and the promise that technology offers for tomorrow.

The vision of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution is to help stakeholders harness the potential of technological progress for the equitable and human-centred transformation of industries, economies and societies. Its mission is to provide a strategic and future-oriented platform to make sense of exponential technologies and shape their responsible adoption and application globally.

The centre’s work spans four priorities:

The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network launched three new centres: the Centre for Trustworthy Technology in Austin, Texas, with a focus on the ethical uses of technologies; the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Telangana, in India, with a focus on policy and governance for healthcare and life sciences; and the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Malaysia, with a focus on digital transformation and the energy transition.

Elsewhere in the network, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Rwanda and Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Azerbaijan developed roadmaps for their national artificial intelligence (AI) strategies to improve governance, increase productivity and create jobs. Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution India’s AI in Agriculture framework was adopted by the Telangana state government, leveraging emerging technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase yields of over 7,000 chili farmers. Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan convened key stakeholders on the topics of smart cities, agile governance and digital transformation and fed recommendations into the G7 ministerial meetings, which included a G7-endorsed case for an institutional mechanism for cross-border data flows. Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Brazil published a toolkit for manufacturing companies to adopt 4.0 technologies in predictive maintenance.

The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s cross-cutting communities deepened their engagement with key stakeholders from business, government and civil society. The Innovator Communities grew to more than 400 start-ups, including over 100 Unicorns, 100 Global Innovators and 200 Technology Pioneers. The Chief Digital Officers community expanded to over 90 C-level digital transformation leaders, working together to accelerate the sustainable digital transformation of industries. Eight focused Global Future Councils kicked off their two-

year term, driving expert insights on the future of tech policy, synthetic biology, and more. The San Francisco centre hosted the launch of the Tech Diplomacy Network, a multistakeholder community of technology diplomats and public- and private- sector envoys based in Silicon Valley, which aims to build expertise, share best practices and facilitate dialogue on technology diplomacy topics.

AI work streams supported business and government in adopting AI responsibly, including work on facial recognition technology currently protecting citizens in 190 countries

and highlighting more than 20 successful AI applications in manufacturing and supply chains. Additionally, the Responsible AI Leadership: A Global Summit on Generative AI convened experts to identify and establish means to ensure generative AI models are safe, robust, fair and equitable.

The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution produced several publications during the reporting period, including the Building a Quantum Economy report on the opportunities and risks of quantum technology and the current state of the quantum computing industry; The Next Frontier in Fighting Wildfires report from the FireAId initiative that describes an algorithm’s ability to predict the location of wildfires up to 24 hours in advance with 80% accuracy; and the Earning Digital Trust report on the requirements for trustworthy technology, which introduces a new framework for decision-makers.

The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the strengths, inequalities and systemic issues facing health systems worldwide. The pandemic has also brought to the fore new ways of working; digital tools have been embraced, helping to address some of the sector’s challenges. The task now is to reshape healthcare systems so they can better cope with short- and long-term challenges, including workforce shortages, increased mental health issues and variable access to healthcare services, which are complex and often interconnected.

The vision of the Centre for Health and Healthcare is for a world in which every person has equal access to the highest standards of health and healthcare. As part of the mission, the centre aims to identify and expand solutions for more resilient, efficient and equitable healthcare systems. It also fosters collaboration to allow government and business to use the developments of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to improve the state of health and healthcare globally.

The centre’s work includes four priorities:

In January 2023, the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Telangana was established in Hyderabad, India to focus on healthcare and life sciences. The centre also entered into a partnership with the Wellcome Trust to provide an action-oriented and research-based framework on the impact of climate change on population health.

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023, the World Health Organization announced the establishment of a Tuberculosis Vaccine Accelerator Council that will facilitate the development and delivery of novel TB vaccines.

The centre launched the CEO Alliance on Food, Water and Health to connect business leadership to advance the sustainable, healthy food systems’ transformation. It also continued its collaborative work on the Digital Health Action Alliance, which seeks to leverage digital solutions and adopt a systems-change approach to reducing death, disability and inequity from non-communicable diseases.

The centre published the Global Health and Healthcare Strategic Outlook, which sets a vision for 2035 based on equitable access and outcomes, healthcare systems transformation, technology and innovation, and environmental sustainability, with equity as the foundational goal. The Global Health Equity Network introduced the Zero Health Gaps Pledge to advance health equity through core strategies, operations and investments.

Building on the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 pledge #WorkingWithCancer, led by the Publicis Foundation, the Forum created a joint initiative to help remove stigma and discrimination at work and to provide a supportive workplace for employees with cancer. The Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience released new national-level findings that assess the strengths, weaknesses and threats to the sustainability and resilience of national health systems and offer recommendations for healthcare policy.

The vision of the Centre for Nature and Climate is to protect, restore and regenerate the global commons. The mission is to build knowledge and share insights, to engage diverse stakeholders in co-creating solutions and to catalyse bold, action-oriented partnerships.

The centre’s work includes three priorities:

The centre supported global efforts to expand and accelerate the nature and climate agenda. In particular, it published more than 20 reports promoting thought leadership by generating insights on topics from blue carbon to food, nature and health transitions, to embedding Indigenous knowledge in the conservation and restoration of landscapes.

At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023, leading climate scientists premiered a framework on biophysical domains that consider a range of indicators along with the 1.5°C global warming limit and serve as a set of earth system boundaries that should not be breached to secure a safe and just future.

During the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15), the centre hosted 10 sessions, gathering hundreds of leaders to discuss issues ranging from the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework to biodiversity credits and deforestation-free supply chains.

At COP27, the centre actively supported the Egyptian COP27 presidency on such topics as climate adaptation, mobility and a just energy transition.

Initiated by Indonesia as part of its G20 presidency and with a long history of ocean stewardship, the Ocean 20 (O20) convened to identify actionable policy recommendations and strategies to collectively spur investment and growth in the ocean economy while protecting, restoring and regenerating it.

At the Sustainable Development Impact Meetings 2022, the Forum hosted the first ministerial gathering of the High Ambition Coalitionto End Plastic Pollution, which discussed a roadmap to end plastic pollution by 2040.

Related to industry decarbonization efforts, the First Movers Coalition added Canada and the United Arab Emirates as partners. The Alliance of CEO Climate Leaders launched a supply chain collaborative to set targets and deliver decarbonization outcomes for Scope 3 (value chain) emissions, and worked with governments to address policy and regulatory barriers to deliver Scope 2 targets.

Regarding system transitions to nature positive, the 1t.org initiative increased its corporate pledges to 81 companies, with commitments to plant 7 billion trees in over 65 countries by 2030. A partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature revealed that 85% of companies who shared data on their reforestation were on track to fulfil their commitments. Additionally, a partnership was signed with the Indonesian Government to support its ambition to expand blue carbon restoration and ocean conservation efforts.

As concerns resource stewardship for better living, the Global PlasticAction Partnership signed an agreement with the Government of Ecuador to work towards a global effort to create a legally-binding agreement to address plastic pollution. The Food Innovation Hubs added the United Arab Emirates as a co-founder alongside the Netherlands, to strengthen multistakeholder investments to increase food systems innovation through a network of country hubs.

During this reporting period, the centre launched a Chief Sustainability Leaders Community that already comprises 91 chief sustainability officers from 18 sectors and 27 countries; the Giving to Amplify Earth Action community of philanthropic, public- and private-sector stakeholders, as a catalytic force to drive strategic interventions on climate and nature solutions; and the Earth Decides community of world-class nature and climate experts from diverse societies, generations and landscapes meeting with and informing public-,private-and philanthropic-sector decision- makers to drive credible Earth-centred action on a wide scale.

The last three decades’ growth models raised living standards widely and lifted more than 1 billion people out of poverty, but also augmented inequality within and between countries. The vision of the Centre for the New Economy and Society is to build prosperous, resilient and inclusive economies and societies that create opportunities for all.

The centre’s mission is to develop insights on growth, jobs, skills, equity and risks and to provide a platform for dialogue and high-ambition action by leaders to restore and shape growth, prosperity and improved living standards.

The centre’s work includes five priorities:

The centre also coordinates the Forum’s engagement with all Knowledge Communities, including universities, academic experts and Global Future Councils.

The Future of Growth Consortium, a high-level coalition of leaders championing a new multidimensional framework for resilient, inclusive and sustainable growth, held its inaugural meeting on 2-3 May 2023 and began its multi-year work. Chief economists from over 50 leading organizations released three Chief Economists Outlooks, while insights and dialogues on the markets of tomorrow, industrial policy, taxation and inflation helped shed light on specific aspects of the economic outlook.

The Jobs Consortium, a coalition of leaders championing investment in “good jobs”, aligned on pathways for mobilizing new and good jobs. The Future of Jobs Report 2023 mapped the jobs and skills outlook for the next five years. The Good Work Alliance developed the Good Work Framework to help companies establish a new benchmark for job quality, while Morocco became the first country to set up the Forum-supported Jobs Accelerator. The Refugee Employment and Employability Alliance aligned on methods for supporting refugees with labour market integration.

The centre’s initiatives to accelerate racial justice, disability inclusion and LGBTQI+ inclusion impacted over 500 companies during the year. On the issue of equity, the Global Gender Gap Report 2023 released data on countries’ rate of progress in reaching gender parity, which stands at 131 years to achieve full parity. The Gender Parity Accelerators expanded their work to 14 economies. A new initiative on accelerating an equitable and just transition began building a vision, tools and coalitions for change.

The Global Risks Report 2023 highlighted the new era of polycrises in five categories, economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological, and outlined how best to analyse them over the short, medium and long term. This foresight was widely disseminated and discussed over the course of the year to develop a proactive agenda for risk preparedness.

Nearly 200 business partners and over 30 governments worked closely with the centre during the year. The centre’s unique accelerator model converted global frameworks into country- level initiatives and fostered cross-country learning on innovation, jobs, skills, education and gender parity. The centre’s work also continued to be supported by five expert bodies – Global Future Councils – to bring additional analysis and foresight to its work.

As the urgency of global challenges mount amid a landscape of rising geopolitical rivalry, progress on shared objectives can only be achieved through the collaboration of leaders from government, business, international organizations and civil society.

The mission of the Centre for Regions, Trade and Geopolitics is to convene these stakeholders to deliver insight into the dynamics of a fast-changing geopolitical context, and to identify and operationalize opportunities for impact-driven partnerships. The centre’s vision is to help stakeholders shape progress on global and regional priorities within the most complex geopolitical and geo-economic landscape in decades.

The centre’s work includes three priorities:

The centre collaborates with governments, international organizations, businesses and global intergovernmental entities, including the G20, Conference of the Parties, trade secretariats and UN agencies. It continues to work closely with US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry to advance the First Movers Coalition. The centre is also responsible for coordinating the Forum’s engagement with all civil society organizations, including non-governmental organizations, labour unions and religious organizations.

As part of the Forum’s participation in the Partnership for Central America, the centre convened three high-level workshops on the adoption of the Stakeholder Metrics, reaching more than 200 leaders in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

The centre helped launch Ocean 20 (O20) in cooperation with Indonesia’s G20 presidency, providing a platform for stakeholders to realize commitments towards a sustainable, inclusive ocean. In addition, the Global Plastic Action Partnership in Latin America pioneered efforts to reduce plastic pollution particularly in Ecuador, Mexico City and Panama.

The centre hosted ongoing Country Strategy Dialogues, convening government officials and business executives to drive growth and investment, as well as CEO-led community partnerships in Europe, India and the Middle East that work to accelerate progress on climate targets. It also worked with key stakeholders from Europe and the United States as part of the Western Balkans Diplomacy Dialogue and with more than 200 Israeli and Palestinian business leaders collaborating to advocate for a two-state solution.

The Humanitarian and Resilience Investing Initiative launched its first UpLink Challenge in October 2022, selecting 10 ventures that are helping communities build resilience and recover from crises. In February 2023, the initiative launched an investor-led programme to help these ventures expand their solutions in frontier markets.

The Global Alliance for Trade Facilitation’s projects delivered initial cost savings of $60 million in seven countries, providing 10 times the return on their investment. Among the projects was the digitization of Ecuador’s phytosanitary certification, completed in October 2022.

A TradeTech initiative was launched with the United Arab Emirates to help increase the use of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies in trade.

A Coalition of Trade Ministers on Climate launched at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023. The community identified key goods and services for climate-trade focus.

Together with the World Bank and World Trade Organization, the Action on Climate and Trade programme supported countries to position strategically for the climate transition. Additionally, a partnership with South Africa provided new thinking on tradepolicies for tackling plastic pollution, and leading supply chain firms pooled their insights into supply chain sustainability.

Completing the progress made in this work stream, the Inclusive Trade project sought to improve the societal impacts of trade, including better outcomes for workers and improving access to the benefits of trade for Indigenous communities.

Cities are facing a tough road ahead as they seek to recover from compounding global crises and continued economic instability.

Cities are often on the front line of disruptions – from inequality to climate change – but they also serve as incubators and accelerators of new solutions. Public-private collaboration and

co-investment are essential to creating more sustainable, resilient and equitable cities.

Reflecting this situation, the mission of the Centre for Urban Transformation is to catalyse and accelerate global progress and build a more prosperous future through collective action in cities and local communities. To this end, the centre mobilizes public- and private-sector leaders to commit expertise and resources to invigorate local economies, improve quality of life and make communities more resilient.

The centre’s work includes three priorities:

With activities in more than 130 cities worldwide, the centre registered significant growth during this reporting period.

The centre published the 2023 edition of the State of the Connected World report, establishing a set of priority actions for businesses and government leaders to address the risks and maximize the benefits of connected technologies. In parallel, the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance released a policy benchmarking tool to advance the responsible and ethical use of smart city technologies.

At COP27, the centre launched a first-of-its-kind platform for urban decarbonization, the Toolbox of Solutions: Decarbonizing Urban Ecosystems, and mobilized mayors and partners to deliver a global call for the increased financing of urban nature-based solutions at Biodiversity COP15.

Complementing these efforts, business leaders and government ministers from 31 countries joined forces to establish a coalition, the Davos Baukultur Alliance, to advance a conscious, quality-oriented approach to the planning, construction and management of buildings, infrastructure, public spaces and landscapes. The Centre for Urban Transformation was selected as the secretariat.

Infrastructure funding and financing were key themes at the second Urban Transformation Summit. The three-day event, held in Detroit from 10-12 October 2022, included 150 global leaders from more than 20 countries. The event helped jump-start a series of new expert task forces on topics ranging from urban regeneration to innovative procurement. During the event, the Forum and UN-Habitat launched the Global Partnership for Local Investment to accelerate public-private collaboration and the resourcing of urban initiatives that advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda.

City strategy dialogues were held in Melbourne, Australia and Miami-Dade, USA, helping to catalyse public-private collaboration in support of net-zero carbon goals. The centre also partnered with Columbia University to develop a digital library of best practices and lessons learned from public-private collaboration in cities.

The Global Future Council on the Future of Cities was relaunched in 2023 with a focus on the urban affordability crisis, a widespread and multifaceted global challenge that includes systemic injustices and deepens inequities. The council includes mayors, business leaders and experts in urban development.